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$1 million ticket sold at Farmer store

FARMER – Someone who played the lottery at Kelly’s 49 on Old N.C. 49 in Farmer is the owner of a Powerball ticket worth $1 million.

According to N.C. Lottery officials, the ticket matched all five white balls but not the Powerball in Saturday night’s drawing, beating odds of 1 in 5.1 million. The winning white ball numbers were 3 - 22 - 26 - 41 - 49.

Kelly’s 49 Manager Brenda Small said Monday afternoon that she learned about the Randolph County store, owned by Clinard Oil of Thomasville, selling the winning ticket from a customer who had seen it on Facebook. Someone else had heard it on the radio.

“I hope it’s someone who desperately needs it,” she said about the person with the winning ticket.

Small said the store has had winners from lottery scratch-off games, but not one for Powerball. Customers who buy lottery tickets are a combination of local residents and “a lot passing through,” she said.

Lottery officials said Saturday night’s drawing produced 22,038 winning tickets totaling $1,205,371. A $3 Power Play ticket sold at the Buy & Go on College Road in Wilmington matched four white balls and the red Powerball and won $40,000. A ticket sold at the Alco on Main Street in Albemarle matched four white balls and the red Powerball and is worth $10,000.

This is the second ticket sold in the Triad in the past two drawings to win $1 million playing Powerball. The first ticket, which has yet to be claimed, was sold in the Jan. 23 drawing at the Harris Teeter on Clemmons Road in Clemmons. Players have 180 days from the draw date to claim their prize.

Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot is an estimated $151 million if taken as an annuity or $95.8 million if taken as a lump sum.